A species of ‘snailfish’, which lives over 7km deep, has been photographed by an international team including scientists from New Zealand. Properly named Notoliparis kermadecensis, the fish is the deepest-living of any in the Southern Hemisphere, and can only survive at the huge pressure found at such depths, limiting their habitats to oceanic trenches. An […]

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Reporter Paul Gorman departs The Press after 14 years, including a stint spent getting to grips with earthquake science.
Paul takes up a position as senior communications advisor at the University of Otago at the end of January, moving south to Dunedin to immerse himself in research – and assist scientists communicate it.
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